General Electric / Nike / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Third Quantum Electronics / /
Country
Switzerland / France / Brazil / /
Event
Company Expansion / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
Princeton University / Beacon Explorers / Fort Belvoir Army Corps of Engineers / NASA HQ / Columbia University / Drexel University / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Vandenburg AFB / NASA Headquarters / Goddard Optical Research Facility / /
IndustryTerm
optical systems / sunlit satellite using joystick control / ground equipment / scientific tool / optical tracking site / satellite spin / /
NaturalFeature
Cape Canaveral / Atlantic Ocean / Wallops Island / /
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Columbia University / the Johns Hopkins University / Illumination Lab / MIT / office of Tracking and Data Acquisition / Princeton University / army / Drexel University / Army Map Service / United States Army / office of Advanced Research and Technology / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / /
Person
John Moye / Buck Schroeder / Lou Caudill / Howard Genatt / William Meyers / Homer Newell / Jack Mengel / Bob Coates / Tom Johnson / Walter Carrion / Robert Jastrow / Charles Peruso / Bob Dicke / Jacques Bonanomi / Alfred Kastler / Al Grafinger / Stan Hurst / Carlton Lehr / Nelson McAvoy / Robert Dicke / John O'Keefe / Jerrold Zacharias / Ted Maiman / Albert Einstein / Paul Spadin / Charles Townes / Dennis Mathews / Nancy Roman / Jacques Blamont / Roland Chase / Fritz Vonbun / Ted Maimon / Henry Plotkin / Caroll Alley / Gordon Snyder / John Walker / Bob Bourdeau / Bill Kaula / John Degnan / /
Position
Director at Goddard on the same subject / Project Manager / dusty launch tower technician / Head / optical physicist / senior engineer / Associate Branch Head / /
Product
Laser / /
ProgrammingLanguage
Ajax / /
ProvinceOrState
New Jersey / New Mexico / Pennsylvania / California / /
GENISIS OF LASER SATELLITE TRACKING AT NASA /GODDARD Henry Plotkin, OCTOBER 27, 2014 Thank you to the Workshop planning committee, for inviting me to give an old man an opportunity to reminisce, and thank you to those he